well, no taxes were owed on the first 5-6 million.

and of all the inheritance tax cases to get upset about you choose this one? a man who didn't even bother to make a will, and 120 distant relatives who never even heard of him?

look, in a capitalist system where the richest increasingly get richer and richer, there needs to be redistribution somehow or we're going to live in an insane cyberpunk dystopia.

you like having roads? you like having public schools? you like healthcare for the elderly? you like having your American imperial military ensuring the free flow of goods from exploited laborers?

the public coffers need to be filled.